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August 12, 2020 | Innovations

IRJ 2020 Innovations Showcase: Voestalpine offers longer life rail steel

VOESTALPINE, Austria, has produced a new grade of rail steel designed to significantly reduce the frequency of head checks.

August 11, 2020 | Financial

Hitachi announces purchase of Perpetuum

HITACHI, Japan, has announced plans to purchase British technology firm Perpetuum as part of plans to advance its digital maintenance capabilities. The deal is expected to be completed later this year, following approval by anti-trust authorities.

August 11, 2020 | Financial

Adif AV awarded €1.18m grant for regenerative braking project

SPAIN’s high-speed network infrastructure manager Adif AV has been awarded a grant of €1.18m from the country’s Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE) to offset the cost of six reversible traction substations, which are facilitating regenerative braking on Spain's conventional rail network.

August 7, 2020 | Technology

Network Rail awards electrification design contract to Atkins

BRITISH infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has awarded a 10-month contract to engineering firm Atkins, for the development of new overhead electrification (OHE) design rules, with the intention of reducing the cost of future electrification projects.

August 7, 2020 | Innovations

IRJ 2020 Innovations Showcase: MHC60 improves material handling

LORAM has added the MHC60 material handling car to its line of ballast maintenance equipment. The MHC60 carries and offloads new ballast or excavated roadbed materials, such as ballast and spoils.

August 7, 2020 | Innovations

IRJ 2020 Innovations Showcase: “Elmer” brings AI to crack detection

IN response to the rail industry’s push for new autonomous safety technologies, along with the move towards preventative rather than interval-based maintenance, Sperry has developed an artificial intelligence tool, Elmer.

August 6, 2020 | Technology

Beijing Metro Line 5 systems upgrade contract awarded

BEIJING Metro has awarded a contract to CRRC Sifang to upgrade the train protection and control systems on Line 5.

August 5, 2020 | Technology

Crowd modelling project optimises onboard social distancing

BRITAIN’s Railway Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) is working with crowd simulation company Crowd Dynamics to model the effectiveness of social distancing on trains and in stations in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The partners have now completed a demonstration model for London and Northeast Railway (LNER).

August 4, 2020 | Locomotives

CRRC Zhuzhou unveils 28.8MW electric freight locomotive

CRRC Zhuzhou has unveiled the first of its Shen 24 28.8MW electric six-section locomotives at a ceremony attended by Chinese government officials and academics from the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

August 4, 2020 | Signalling

$US 4.5bn to support Czech ETCS rollout

THE Czech Ministry of Transport, together with infrastructure manager SŽ, has announced an investment worth around Koruna 100bn ($US 4.5bn) to install ETCS on the national network and fleets over the next 20 years.

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